# Zakkie Eloff artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/zakkie-eloff/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:24:32.575Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: South African
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Zakkie Eloff](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/af/8/85/Zakkie_Eloff_en_Ren%C3%A9_van_Zyl-Eloff_kies_in_1962_werk_vir_hul_uitstalling.jpg)
Zakkie Eloff · see-source-page
Source: https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zakkie_Eloff

## About Zakkie Eloff

Zakkie Eloff (1925–2004) was a South African painter known for depicting animals in natural settings. Wikidata and VIAF identify him as a South African painter and corroborate his life years, while an Afrikaans Wikipedia biography provides the available training history. That account identifies Zaccharia as his given name, says he was born in Botswana, and records studies at Pretoria Boys High School under Walter Battiss. It also describes later training in Johannesburg with Maurice van Essche and Phyllis Gardiner, followed by a 1957 study trip that included work at London's Central School of Art. Collectors are therefore most likely to encounter Eloff through paintings associated with animal and natural-world imagery. The collected sources do not establish a formal movement, named series, exact birth or death dates, or a catalogue raisonné. Those gaps matter for precise cataloguing, so attribution should rest on the object and its documented history rather than on biography alone.

## Common works and media

The available sources most securely support describing Eloff as a painter whose documented subject focus was animals in natural settings. The source pack does not establish particular paint media, print editions, sculptures, ceramics, drawings, posters, named series, or recurring formats. Auction and appraisal descriptions should therefore avoid assigning a specific technique or series unless it can be verified from the object and its documentation.

## Market and appraisal context

The supplied Appraisily input associates 180 auction-directory records with Zakkie Eloff, but the collected public page returned a rate-limit response and the source pack contains no individual lot descriptions, sale dates, estimates, or realized prices. An appraisal should begin by confirming that the object is a painting attributable to Eloff and recording whether its subject corresponds to the animal-in-nature imagery described in the available biography. Medium, dimensions, signature or inscriptions, date, condition, provenance, and relevant comparable public sales should be verified from object and lot documentation before reaching a valuation conclusion. This profile does not support a price trend, scarcity claim, premium, or prediction.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. For Zakkie Eloff, the collected identity evidence is useful, but the present source pack lacks usable lot-level market details.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48645053
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/8931866/
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb16591416f
- Wikipedia: https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zakkie_Eloff
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/zakkie-eloff/